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We can all agree that WordPress has come a long way since its beginning and that it grew into something a lot more than blogging software.
At its core, it’s still a content management system (CMS), but with over 59,000 plugins in the wordpress.org directory, you can customize it to be much more.
The reason for its popularity is its low entry barrier for both content creators and developers. Sometimes this comes with a cost. It’s no secret that WordPress has a bad reputation when it comes to development. It has a lot of legacy baggage and die-hard rules that prevent any backward compatibility breaking change when it comes to PHP code (Gutenberg is another story I won’t get into).